Studies Weekly Week 15

Which situation is a natural disaster?

• hurricane

• traffic jam

• bad hair day

• power outage

Which theme of geography studies how humans change the Earth?

• Place

• Region

• Movement

• Human-Environment Interaction

What effect might living near the ocean have on someone's diet?

• They might eat fish.

• They might eat beef.

• They might eat rice or grains.

• There wouldn't be an effect.

Why do people rely on the resources of their environment?

• to move form one place to another

• to describe where they live

• to meet their basic needs

• to draw maps

Foresty, mining, and drilling are examples of jobs that were created based on the __________ available.

• human characteristics

• human movement

• political maps

• natural resources

Why do people modify their environment?

• to draw maps

• to give better directions

• to meet their needs

• to help with voting

What is another word for "dangers of the environment?"

• landforms

• climates

• faults

• hazards

What are caused by fault lines in the Earth?

• blizzards

• earthquakes

• hurricanes

• floods

What can lead to less pollution?

• renewable resources

• human characteristics

• physical environment

• movement

What could happen if humans change the landscape or natural vegetation?

• It can help the environment.

• Nothing will happen.

• It can hurt the environment.

• It can tell us about the location.